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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I have read through Lord Orrery's History of Swift. I greatly like it.'Samuel Richardson Lord OrreryRemarks on the Life and Writings of Dr SwiftPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have read through the 12 lessons of the Literary Correspondence College, & made a few corrections & suggestions, & I return them by parcel post. They are devilish goo...Arnold Bennett  Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my...Tom Hopkinson Antonia White[diary notebook]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my...Antonia White Tom Hopkinson[diary notebook]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I durst bet, the Blacks have not paid you yet: they ar...Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle'Animal Magnetism'Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1900-1945'I have read your delightful and penetrating (I use the word deliberately) "[Mysterious] Japan". I have the book. I was looking into it again only the other day. Pray do ...Joseph Conrad Julian Street Mysterious JapanPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have read your kind letter much more than the elegant Pindar which it accompanied'. Samuel Johnson Pindar[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet's frequent declarations of her love, she also censu...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaigh[comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet's frequent declarations of her love, she also censu...Hester Mulso Lady Bradshaigh[comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet's frequent declarations of her love, she also censu...Mrs Donellan Lady Bradshaigh[comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I have read your prodigious & all-embracing "Love?s Pilgrimage". I should very strongly resent its being censored in England. It deals candidly, here and there, with su...Arnold Bennett Upton SinclairLove's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1600-1699'I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I think she has a good deale of witt . . . But the storry ...Dorothy Osborne Marguerite de ValoisMemoires de la Reyne MargueritePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read your Ronins Fideles.'Robert Louis Stevenson Bernard Marie Henri GausseronLes Fideles RoninsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read [italics] once [end italics] over all the letters you so kindly entrusted me with, and I don't think even you, her most cherished friend, could wish the impr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters to Ellen Nussey]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I have read [The First Men on the Moon] in Strand, & hasten to insult & annoy you by stating that the last two instalments are among the very best things you have done. ...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe First Men on the MoonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read, since being here, Evelyn's Life of Mrs Godolphin; it is very pretty, but she is too virtuous and too nun-like...'Charles Darwin John EvelynThe Life of Mrs GodolphinPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I had always read the other side except in Hume, & wa...Lady Caroline Lamb William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have received a nice letter from Colvin. He says my room is delightful; but there was a green curtain which ‘put his teeth on edge’. What should this be? Not the purit...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and though I was sorry you put yourself to any expense on my...Sydney Smith William Pitt Scargill [anon.]Elizabeth EvanshawPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and though I was sorry you put yourself to any expense on my...Sydney Smith [anon.]Three Months in Ireland. By an English ProtestantPrint: Book


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